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Eliot, George
Description
- Eliot, George
- Group of 14 first editions uniformly bound
- ink and paper
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Adam Bede. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition, 3 volumes, complete with half-title.
The Mill on the Floss. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First edition, 3 volumes, complete with half-title.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition, complete with half-title.
Romola. London, Smithh, Elder and Co, 1863. First edition, second issue, 3 volumes, not issued with half-title, lacking ads in Volume II.
Felix Holt. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First edition, 3 volumes, complete with half-title.
The Spanish gypsy. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. First edition, complete with half-title.
How Lisa Loved the King. Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1869. First edition, with original clothe and ad bound in at rear.
Middlemarch. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872. First edition, 4 volumes, complete with half-title, but without errata slip in Volume II.
The Legend of Jubal. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1874. First edition, complete with half-title, and errata slip.
Daniel Deronda. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. First edition, second issue, woth contents leaves in Volumes III and IV, and with errata slip in Volume III, 4 volumes, complete with half-title.
Brother Jacob - The Lifted Veil. New York, Harper, 1878. First edition, bound with original wrappers and ads.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. First edition, complete with half-title.
Essays and leaves from a Note-Book. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. First edition, complete with half-title.
With:
- Borther and Sister Sonnets. London, for Private circulation Only, 1869, First edition of this forgery.
- Agatha. London, Trübner, 1869. First edition of this forgery. Original self-wrappers, chemise and custom half blue morocco slipcase.
- Cross, J.W. George Eliot's life. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition, 3 volumes.